Rental firm Europcar in Oman recently took delivery of a fleet of the all-new 2011 Suzuki Kizashi “Deluxe” model from Moosa Abdul Rahman Hassan, the Omani Suzuki dealer. Unless other dealers around the GCC are keeping quiet about it, we’d say Oman is the first country in the Middle East to receive the Kizashi.
Ford says that in 1968, their management approved a special Mustang, a car that sacrificed nothing in its quest to be the best all-around road-going performance machine ever created by Ford Motor Company. That car became the sought-after 1969 Mustang Boss 302. Forty-two years later, the badge has been resurrected. With the millions of “special edition” Mustangs floating around, it is amazing that this badge didn’t pop up sooner.
Infiniti is bringing a new model to its American line-up. The 2011 G25 sedan will offer a smaller 2.5-litre V6 engine that is more fuel-efficient than the 3.7-litre V6 now fitted in the G37 sedan. It also seems to look exactly like the G37 sedan, which itself was facelifted for 2010 and quietly launched in the UAE without anybody telling us.
Saudi Arabia‘s latest Middle East champion driver believes a new generation of young hopefuls from the Kingdom are waiting to follow his path to success. Prince Abdulaziz Al Faisal won the inaugural Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Middle East earlier this year and his achievement has caught the imagination of young Saudis.
وقد جاءت سيارات XJ الجديدة كلياً بأناقتها وميزاتها المتطورة وشخصيتها الرياضية لتمنح قطاع السيارات الفاخرة روحاً جديدة مفعمة بالجرأة. ناهيك عن تقديمها مزيجاً مغرياً يجمع بين التصميم المتميز والأداء الذي يخطف الأنفاس والرفاهية المريحة والميزات الهندسية المتطورة، دون المساومة على أي منها.
وبناء على النجاح الذي حققه كل من طرازي XK وXF الجديدان، يأتي تقديم سيارات XJ الجديدة كلياً كنقطة تحول في علامة جاكوار المفعمة بالقوة والحيوية.
The all-new 2010 Jaguar XJ full-size luxury sedan is now quietly available in UAE, Saudi Arabian, Qatari and other GCC showrooms. The XJ will come here with three engine choices and only in long-wheelbase form.
The 2011 Mazda 2, a facelifted version of the Mazda2 that has been on sale in Europe since 2008, was launched in the UAE today at a lunch event in Dubai. Jostling for attention alongside good chicken and bad beef were the sedan and hatchback models, competitively priced and completing the Mazda range in the GCC.
The 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe and CTS-V Coupe are now available to pre-order at Cadillac showrooms across the Middle East, and will start arriving in the GCC this September.
General Motors has announced that selected Chevrolet dealers in the United States have begun taking customer orders for the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, the first mass-production electric vehicle with extended-range capability. Following the U.S. introduction, the Volt will go on sale in global markets starting with Europe and China in 2011. A few will also be sent to the GCC for hot-weather testing to see if they are viable for sale in the UAE.